He wanted around £75 per case of 500 packs to produce Regal rip-offs. But that
fell to £56.60 for plain packs. That would give him a staggering £214,800
more profit a year shipping in a single container a month.

Oetomo then drew a diagram of how to smuggle his fags past British customs by
shipping them from his factories in Indonesia and Malaysia via a third
country such as Thailand.

They could then be packed into a UK-bound container hidden inside other goods
and listed as furniture. Indonesian Oetomo told how he had helped arrange to
smuggle cigarettes via Singapore and Le Havre in France a few months ago.

Downing Street shelved its original plans for plain packaging last summer,
sparking accusations of interference by David Cameron’s election guru Lynton
Crosby, who had also been advising tobacco giant Philip Morris.